IoT Jobs in England

IoT (Internet of Things, Internet of Everything)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IoT in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited IoT over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 277 358
Rank change year-on-year -209 +81 -29
Permanent jobs citing IoT 213 873 839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.43% 1.02% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% 2.92% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 129 693 446
10th Percentile £42,250 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -10.71%

All Generic Skills
England

IoT falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,013 29,881 39,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.70% 34.77% 43.94%
Number of salaries quoted 8,855 20,885 21,334
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,483
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

IoT
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing IoT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for IoT in England

IoT
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IoT in England.

Salary trend for IoT in England

IoT
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IoT in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IoT in England

IoT
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IoT within the England region over the 6 months to 13 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -15 55 £80,000 +18.52% 320
South East -35 43 £55,000 -8.33% 155
Midlands +14 41 £62,500 +13.64% 76
South West +98 37 £60,000 +4.35% 65
West Midlands +17 32 £68,750 +14.58% 39
North of England -85 27 £58,000 +10.48% 97
North West -60 22 £57,500 +15.00% 53
East Midlands +7 8 £50,000 - 26
East of England -96 8 £55,000 - 72
Yorkshire +22 4 £60,000 +4.35% 29
IoT
UK

IoT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.82%) Confluence
2 2 (0.94%) ThingWorx
3 1 (0.47%) Mendix
Applications
1 9 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.82%) Chatbot
3 5 (2.35%) Maya
3 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.94%) Simulink
5 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.47%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (29.11%) AWS
2 27 (12.68%) Azure
3 16 (7.51%) Cloud Computing
4 15 (7.04%) Serverless
5 12 (5.63%) GitHub
6 10 (4.69%) Amazon S3
7 9 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (4.23%) SaaS
8 7 (3.29%) AWS IoT
9 6 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.35%) GCP
11 4 (1.88%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.88%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.41%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.74%) Internet
2 24 (11.27%) 5G
3 21 (9.86%) Bluetooth
3 21 (9.86%) Wi-Fi
4 18 (8.45%) Wireless
5 16 (7.51%) LTE
6 15 (7.04%) WAN
7 12 (5.63%) 4G
8 10 (4.69%) MQTT
9 9 (4.23%) Firewall
10 8 (3.76%) Modbus
11 7 (3.29%) Network Security
11 7 (3.29%) VPN
12 6 (2.82%) 3G
12 6 (2.82%) LoRaWAN
13 5 (2.35%) SD-WAN
14 4 (1.88%) 2G
14 4 (1.88%) BGP
14 4 (1.88%) LAN
14 4 (1.88%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.74%) MySQL
2 14 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.10%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.29%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.35%) TimescaleDB
6 4 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.88%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.88%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.41%) Big Data
7 3 (1.41%) Power BI
7 3 (1.41%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.94%) HDInsight
8 2 (0.94%) Redis
9 1 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (9.39%) Git
2 8 (3.76%) JIRA
3 5 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.41%) MSI
4 3 (1.41%) Subversion
5 2 (0.94%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.94%) ESLint
5 2 (0.94%) GitLab
5 2 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.94%) Sinon.JS
5 2 (0.94%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.94%) webpack
6 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 91 (42.72%) Social Skills
2 64 (30.05%) Manufacturing
3 54 (25.35%) Electronics
4 46 (21.60%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (15.02%) Law
6 25 (11.74%) Finance
7 21 (9.86%) Marketing
7 21 (9.86%) Telecoms
8 17 (7.98%) Games
9 14 (6.57%) Public Sector
10 12 (5.63%) Tech for Good
11 11 (5.16%) Automotive
11 11 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (4.69%) Legal
13 7 (3.29%) Social Housing
14 5 (2.35%) Banking
14 5 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.88%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.88%) Billing
15 4 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (19.72%) Lead
2 36 (16.90%) Senior
3 25 (11.74%) Developer
4 24 (11.27%) Software Engineer
5 20 (9.39%) Architect
5 20 (9.39%) Technical Leader
6 13 (6.10%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (5.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (5.16%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (5.16%) Product Manager
8 10 (4.69%) Software Developer
9 9 (4.23%) Consultant
9 9 (4.23%) Design Engineer
10 7 (3.29%) Analyst
10 7 (3.29%) Embedded Engineer
11 6 (2.82%) Electronics Engineer
11 6 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (2.82%) Project Manager
12 5 (2.35%) Hardware Engineer
12 5 (2.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.92%) Node.js
1 19 (8.92%) React
2 13 (6.10%) AngularJS
3 11 (5.16%) RESTful
4 9 (4.23%) Vue
5 8 (3.76%) CSS
6 7 (3.29%) .NET
6 7 (3.29%) HTML
6 7 (3.29%) NestJS
7 6 (2.82%) Django
8 5 (2.35%) Laravel
8 5 (2.35%) WebSockets
9 4 (1.88%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.88%) JSON
9 4 (1.88%) Kafka
9 4 (1.88%) REST
9 4 (1.88%) Symfony
10 3 (1.41%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.94%) gRPC
11 2 (0.94%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.27%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (10.80%) SCADA
3 20 (9.39%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 15 (7.04%) NB-IoT
5 14 (6.57%) Operational Technology
6 13 (6.10%) Mobile App
7 12 (5.63%) Embedded Systems
7 12 (5.63%) Renewable Energy
8 11 (5.16%) Algorithms
8 11 (5.16%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (4.23%) Smart Home
10 8 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (3.29%) Cloud Native
11 7 (3.29%) Data Centre
12 5 (2.35%) Blockchain
12 5 (2.35%) Client/Server
13 4 (1.88%) Industrial Internet of Things
13 4 (1.88%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.88%) NHS
13 4 (1.88%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.49%) Linux
2 15 (7.04%) Windows
3 11 (5.16%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.35%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.94%) VMS
6 1 (0.47%) Android
6 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.47%) Debian
6 1 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (28.64%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (17.84%) Agile
3 34 (15.96%) Analytics
3 34 (15.96%) Software Engineering
4 29 (13.62%) Strategic Thinking
5 28 (13.15%) Artificial Intelligence
5 28 (13.15%) Machine Learning
6 26 (12.21%) Mentoring
6 26 (12.21%) Microservices
7 22 (10.33%) Roadmaps
8 20 (9.39%) Data Collection
8 20 (9.39%) DevOps
8 20 (9.39%) Mechatronics
9 19 (8.92%) Project Management
9 19 (8.92%) Validation
10 17 (7.98%) Computer Science
10 17 (7.98%) Decision-Making
10 17 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (7.51%) CRM
11 16 (7.51%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 35 (16.43%) Python
2 27 (12.68%) TypeScript
3 19 (8.92%) SQL
4 17 (7.98%) C
5 16 (7.51%) PowerShell
6 14 (6.57%) Bash
6 14 (6.57%) PHP
7 12 (5.63%) C++
7 12 (5.63%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.29%) C#
9 6 (2.82%) Embedded C
10 5 (2.35%) Java
10 5 (2.35%) Ladder Logic
11 3 (1.41%) Go
11 3 (1.41%) Rust
12 2 (0.94%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.47%) Embedded C++
13 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.47%) R
13 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (29.58%) Degree
2 11 (5.16%) CompTIA Security+
2 11 (5.16%) Network+ Certification
3 10 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.76%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.35%) CCNP
7 4 (1.88%) ACCA
7 4 (1.88%) CCIE
7 4 (1.88%) CIMA
7 4 (1.88%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.88%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.41%) PMP
9 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.94%) CISSP
10 1 (0.47%) ACSP
10 1 (0.47%) APMP
10 1 (0.47%) CHECK Team Leader
10 1 (0.47%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.76%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.88%) GMP
2 4 (1.88%) QA
2 4 (1.88%) SLA
3 3 (1.41%) NIST
4 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.94%) NCSC
5 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.47%) COBIT
5 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) IEC 62304
5 1 (0.47%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.47%) MISRA
System Software
1 20 (9.39%) Docker
2 11 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (5.16%) vSphere
3 7 (3.29%) Firmware
4 5 (2.35%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.94%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (7.51%) Terraform
2 13 (6.10%) Ansible
3 11 (5.16%) Puppet
4 9 (4.23%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.88%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (13.62%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.74%) Siemens
3 20 (9.39%) Rockwell
3 20 (9.39%) SAP
4 11 (5.16%) VMware
5 7 (3.29%) Oracle
6 5 (2.35%) Databricks
6 5 (2.35%) EMC
7 4 (1.88%) Meraki
7 4 (1.88%) Okta
7 4 (1.88%) Workday
8 3 (1.41%) Aruba
8 3 (1.41%) Cisco
8 3 (1.41%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.41%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.41%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.94%) Atmel
9 2 (0.94%) ConnectWise
9 2 (0.94%) Google
10 1 (0.47%) Netskope